Dicerca pugionata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Genus
- Dicerca
- Species
- Dicerca pugionata
- Scientific Name
- Dicerca pugionata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dicerca pugionata
Dicerca pugionata, also known as the witch-hazel borer, is a species of buprestid beetle from the Chrysochroinae subfamily that occurs in the Eastern North America. Its food includes witch-hazel species including Hamamelis virginiana in mid July. It also feeds on ninebark and alder species.
Dicerca pugionata measure 11–14 mm (0.43–0.55 in) in length.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dicerca aenea
- Dicerca aeneovaria
- Dicerca aino
- Dicerca alni
- Dicerca amphibia
- Dicerca asperata
- Dicerca berolinensis
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- Dicerca caudata
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- Dicerca crassicollis
- Dicerca divaricata
- Dicerca dumolini
- Dicerca furcata
- Dicerca hesperoborealis
- Dicerca hornii
- Dicerca inconspicua
- Dicerca juncea
- Dicerca kurosawai
- Dicerca lepida
- Dicerca lugubris
- Dicerca lurida
- Dicerca moesta
- Dicerca mutica
- Dicerca obscura
- Dicerca pectorosa
- Dicerca pugionata
- Dicerca punctulata
- Dicerca querci
- Dicerca sexualis
- Dicerca spreta
- Dicerca tenebrica
- Dicerca tenebrosa
- Dicerca tuberculata